• 0 Posts
  • 34 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 11th, 2024

help-circle
  • The problem with Gentoo is that you can’t install anything in a hurry.

    Run VMs on Arch:

    1. pacman -S virt-manager
    2. Done.

    Run VMs on Gentoo?

    1. Read the Wiki
    2. Find out which USE-Flags you will want
    3. Fnd out the dependencies it’s based on (QEMU), read that Wiki entry too
    4. See what USE-Flags you want
    5. See what Kernel options are needed. Recompile Kernel if changes were necessary.
    6. emerge -av app-emulation/virt-manager
    7. See if you have read the Wikis of all dependencies.
    8. Install.
    9. Read the dependencies wikis for how to set things up.
    10. Done

    Yes, this is an extreme example, but many large packages are a bit like this.
    That’s why you will tripple-check if you really need sonething before installing it on Gentoo, or you are like me and install Boxes in a Flatpak instead.

    Personally i like Gentoo more than Arch because of all the buttons and knobs, and once it’s set up it does not need more time than Arch, but installing stuff is sometimes hard.







  • I’ve been self-hosting it for about 10 years now. It’s a castle built on sand (PHP): It’s hard to install, hard to update, and becomes slower by the day, but once you have learned Docker, Apache, SSL and a bit of SQL, it works mostly reliable.

    If you just want file syncronization you could just buy a hosted instance, and use Cryptomator for protecting your privacy. Then you can have Nextcloud in under 30mins.
    If you want to store large amounts of data, or you also want to use Calendar, Collabora, Talk,… then self-hosting will be cheaper/more private. But it will require lot’s of learning, far more than the ordinary person can do.









  • sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.chtoMemes@lemmy.ml*Sheeple* (updated)
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    Sadly election results prove every few years, that you are the only one seeking radical change.

    ~30-50% want extreme conservativism/capitalism. ~20-40% want everything as-is.
    ~30% want mild improvements like a really low UBI.
    <5% want to get rid of oligarchs.
    <.1% want to eliminate suffering.



  • There are 2 kinds of companies:

    1. Evil companies
    2. Companies that are not evil YET.

    What this means in this case is that only your own E-Mail server running on a Raspi in your own home can be considered private or secure in the long run. Unfortunately this is really really hard to do, which is the only reason i have not done it yet.
    Personally i do not consider any E-Mail private, because E-Mail is not E2E-encrypted, and 99.9% of times one side of the conversation is going to be hosted on some shady companies servers.

    Of course Proton delivers a great service, because they make an insecure protocol a little less insecure, and i personally use Proton mail. Unfortunately their closed-source nature makes it impossible to switch providers without abandoning their great software.

    As for services like Drive, they can actually be hosted privately and securely on your own Raspi with stuff like NextCloud/OwnCloud.
    For those that can’t/don’t want to self-host, i would recommend paying for a hoster that hosts FOSS software and contributes to it either with money or code. In that case you would probably loose E2E-encryption, but gain the ability to switch providers once your provider turns on you. In that case at least some of your money would continue to offer value to you by having improved the software you are still using.


  • Personally, i have never experienced problems while reading from USB sticks, but i have while writing. I have a 15+ years old USB2 stick and a new USB3.x stick. The USB2 stick writes with constant ~20MB/s, while USB3 is all over the place between 200MB/s and ~0.1MB/s. Unusable for me. For a while i used external HDDs and SSDs over USB3, as they somehow run without problems, but they are cumbersome and expensive.

    Therefore i have switched to transfer files over the network (for large files i plug in Ethernet) using KDE connect. Unfortunately it can not send folders (yet), so i would .tar them before sending, and untar them after.

    LocalSend would also be an option. Maybe that can do folders natively.


  • Signs of Addiction:

    • Inability to stop? Yes. I drink even when i don’t want to.
    • Increased tolerance? Yes. I drank less when i was a child.
    • Intense focus on the substance or activity? Yes. I have many glasses for water, bottles, carbonated water,…
    • Lack of control? Yes.
    • Personal problems and health issues? Depends on water quality. Maybe.
    • Withdrawal? Absolutely.